FACTORIO: E/ACC UPDATE

The goal of Factorio is to escape the planet you crash-landed on by launching a rocket. But what if instead of getting into the rocket, you launch a recon satellite?

The satellite will permanently uncover a big area on the map, letting you place templates without being physically present. Construction bots will build the physical machines.

This would abstract away the individual machines, letting you design, say, an ore mining template. You go to the map and put it on the nearest ore deposit. To transport the resources back to the base, you put down a bunch of railroad + electricity line templates. Construction bots get to work, and pretty soon a whole ore patch is added to your base's resources.

The large amount of resources lets you launch more recon satellites to uncover new areas of the map. You then combine all your templates into the factory template, which will output satellites, as well as machines for new factory instances.

You're two layers of abstraction above your machines now. Your organic body is irrelevant. You have become the factory. Eventually, the planet's resources run out. Everything has become your synthetic flesh. You achieved the true ending. Or have you?

Liz Lovelace
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